(E) agencies composed of representatives of the parties or of representatives of organizations of
the parties to the disputes determined by them;

(F) courts martial and military commissions;

(G) military authority exercised in the field in time of war or in
occupied territory; or

(H) functions conferred by sections 1738,
1739, 1743,
and 1744 of
title 12; chapter 2of title 41; or sections 1622, 1884, 1891-1902, and former section
1641(b)(2),
of title 50, appendix;

(2)''person'' includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association,
or public or private organization other than an agency;

(3) ''party'' includes a person or agency named or admitted as a party,
or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party,
in an agency proceeding, and a person or agency admitted by an agency as
a party for limited purposes;

(4) ''rule'' means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general
or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret,
or prescribe law or policy or describing the organization, procedure, or
practice requirements of an agency and includes the approval or prescription
for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations
thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefore
or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing on any of
the foregoing;

(6) ''order'' means the whole or a part of a final disposition, whether
affirmative, negative, injunctive, or declaratory in form, of an agency
in a matter other than rule making but including licensing;

(7) ''adjudication'' means agency process for the formulation of an
order;

(8) ''license'' includes the whole or a part of an agency permit, certificate,
approval, registration, charter, membership, statutory exemption or other
form of permission;

(B) recognition of a claim, right, immunity, privilege, exemption,
or exception; or

(C) taking of other action on the application or petition of, and beneficial
to, a person;

(12) ''agency proceeding'' means an agency process as defined by
paragraphs
(5), (7), and (9) of this section;

(13) ''agency action'' includes the whole or a part of an agency rule,
order, license, sanction, relief, or the equivalent or denial thereof,
or failure to act; and

(14) ''ex parte communication'' means an oral or written communication
not on the public record with respect to which reasonable prior notice
to all parties is not given, but it shall not include requests for status
reports on any matter or proceeding covered by this subchapter.